Associate Director, Revenue Forecasting, Migraine

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Position Summary

The primary objective of this position is to provide an end-to-end financial leadership and business support for Neuroscience and Eyecare business unit, specifically Migraine franchise leadership team. The incumbent is responsible for developing and maintaining forecasting models, patient flow models and for developing scenario planning for the on-market indications; he/she supports the business for all aspects of brand and migraine portfolio planning and forecasting. The Associate Director also supports developments of models for potential future integration and assets/indications 2 years before launch. This position is a high visibility role and requires partnering across many different cross functional teams such as Migraine Controller, Sales and Marketing, MABI (Marketing Analytics and Business Insights), US Commercial Finance DHQ, PCS and Supply Chain organizations. We are looking for highly motivated, experienced finance leader who has a proven track record of building effective relationships, delivering results, and passion for process improvement and automation.

Core Responsibilities Include but not limited to:

• Lead and drive monthly LBE (latest best estimate), annual plan and LRP (long range planning) for Migraine Franchise. This includes Migraine Franchise and future pipeline assets.
• Integrate and interpret varied data sources and commercial intelligence in collaboration with MABI and proactively share findings in a clear and concise way.
• Align on market and competition assumptions with MABI and the business, integrate these assumptions into forecasts models, drive scenario planning. Develop and maintain accurate forecast models and patient flow models by indication.
• Contribute to the preparation of management review decks, for LBE, Plan, LRP. Prepare concise narrative on key performance drivers.
• Support month-end, quarter end close and landing activities in partnership with US Commercial DHQ teams.
• Participate in ongoing process improvement efforts and represent team as a SME
• Embody Abbive’s ways of working and values

Required Qualifications:

• 8-10 years progressive finance and accounting or relevant revenue forecasting experience within pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences consulting industries.
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science
• Experience in providing marketing analytics and forecasting analyses for specialized therapeutic areas.
• Experience building forecast models and providing analyses for decision support
• Demonstrated ability to influence decision making in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams
• Self-motivated and experience managing multiple projects across multiple teams while delivering high quality and timely results.
• Must have strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills, along with good interpersonal skills to effectively work with all levels of management.
• Experience presenting complex concepts and models in a clear and simplified way to an organization’s executive leadership team.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites including Power BI, BPC Planning and SAP
• Ability to work independently and self-starter, supporting the business and forecasting leadership in highly matrixed and dispersed locations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s/MBA, CPA, CMA, and/or CFA
• Previous experience within the pharmaceutical industry in revenue/volume forecasting
• Strong analytical and communication skills coupled with an ability to influence stakeholders
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and imperfect/incomplete data
• Experience managing direct reports is a plus

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